You cannot organize an AFRICAN SUMMIT then chief guest is a colonizer being rejected even by your neighbors
That is why we are Mad
Invite Traore. Kagame. Ramaphosa
Talk about Visa, our oil in Turkana, precious metals in Kwale. Youth. Tech
Mr. Phd in artificial insemination!
KRA is not playing with MPs.
In 2022, each MP was given 7.5M to buy a car.
- Use it for work and,
- After the term, keep it or sell it.
In 2023, KRA caught wind of it.
And quickly fired a tax demand to Parliament of Ksh 1B.
KRA argued:
- Car grants are gains from employment
- If MPs were not in office, they wouldn’t get them
- Ordinary citizens do not get car grants
- If MPs can keep or sell the cars at will, that is a direct gain
- It must be taxed under PAYE.
Parliament pushed back that:
- Car grants are reimbursements for work transport.
- MPs are not employees
- So this is not taxable income
When KRA persisted, the parliament ran to court.
- The tribunal agreed with KRA arguments and demand 100%.
Parliament saw danger.
In December 2024, MPs enacted the tax law amendment bill.
They quickly changed the income tax law to read.
- MPs car grants are not taxable
- Even if the MP owns the asset
And they backdated it to apply from 2022.
KRA still wanted their money.
Parliament ran to high court. Arguing,
- How can KRA tax something we have already declared non taxable retrospectively?
In 2026, High court sided with KRA demand of 1B.
Now the matter heads to the Court of Appeal.
What do you think:
- Are MPs employees?
- Should their car grants be taxed?
Thank you, @edwinsifuna, for being a principled leader and refusing to bend the knee to demagogue and dictator Kasongo. I believe you will continue to defend the ODM party from hyenas and sellouts. With or without the party, you remain an important voice for the people of Kenya!
Kenyans, let us be TRUTHFUL.
I don’t know Oketch Sallah. I’ve never met him or spoken with him. However, I believe the attacks on him are hypocritical, unreasonable and malicious.
Here are my thoughts.
Raila Amolo Odinga was a powerful, well connected, wealthy and influential politician who had heavily armed and well trained bodyguards and aides 24/7.
Unless Raila Amolo Odinga chose to be in the company of someone, there is no way that such a person could have forced himself on Raila.
Out of 50 million Kenyans, Raila Amolo Odinga FREELY CHOSE Oketch Sallah to be his aide, confidant and friend.
Raila Amolo Odinga VOLUNTARILY gave Oketch Sallah UNFETTERED ACCESS to his most intimate and personal secrets.
Raila Amolo Odinga sent Oketch Sallah to many escapades locally and abroad.
We have seen images and videos of Oketch Sallah dancing, gallivanting and celebrating with Raila Amolo Odinga, Ida Odinga and other members of Raila’s family.
Oketch Sallah accompanied Raila Amolo Odinga to numerous trips abroad, including for treatment during the last months of Raila’s life.
There are several other Kenyans like Onyango Ketta who also did that.
The question people should be asking are these:
[a] Why wasn’t Ida with Raila Amolo Odinga as he lay dying in India?
[b] Why didn’t Ida accompany Raila to any of the more than 20 trips he made to South Africa, Dubai, UK, China, Canada, and India for treatment months before his death?
[c] Why was Ida attending public functions in Migori and boasting to members of the public about her helicopter and claiming that Raila was well and not ill just three days before Raila died in India?
[d] Why didn’t Ida rush to India on the flight Ruto had hired for more than 20 joyriders who went to pick up Raila’s body from India?
[e] Raila Amolo Odinga was buried less than 3 months ago, why has Ida rushed into Ruto’s ARMS and EMBRACE before grass has grown on his grave?
[f] Why did Ida open a battle front and unleashed her children on her brother in-law and Raila’s elder brother, Oburu Oginga, allegedly because Oburu “had gone to bed with Ruto” only to turn around and do the same?
[g] Why didn’t Ida and her children raise the same questions they are raising about the “broadbased” regime which Raila had constructed WITH Ruto on the BLOOD of the Gen-Zs?
[h] Why are Ida’s children claiming that Oburu is “too old to lead”, yet Oburu is just 2 years older than how old Raila Amolo Odinga was but they didn’t say Raila was too old to lead?
[i] Why haven’t Ida’s children attacked their mother who is 75 years’ old for being too old to be appointed the Permanent Representative to UNEP? After all, Ida is basically Oburu’s age-mate.
These and other questions expose the hypocrisy and double standards by many Kenyans who have attacked Oketch Sallah for no justified reasons.
If anyone deserves to be attacked for befriending Oketch Sallah, it’s Raila Amolo Odinga. It was Raila Amolo Odinga who created a thriving market for some of the most dubious charlatans for more than 35 years.
Let’s speak the TRUTH!
Imagine Councillor Alai calls me a pig...This is a man endowed with a generous, well developed nose, that two well fed rabbits travelling simultaneously at the same velocity can easily go into his nose, down his nostrils without him noticing. Yet he says I'm ugly like a pig!